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From staying safe in the workplace to improving employee performance, discover our best advice from our blogs.
Strategies for Reducing Uncertainty in Decision-Making
To effectively manage risk, Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) professionals must understand the meaning of risk, opportunity, and uncertainty. These three variables are closely related yet different, and OSH professionals must address them together to reduce uncertainty in decision-making.
Risk-taker, or Cautious? Here are Your Jobs of Choice!
If you were asked to come up with the 10 most dangerous jobs, and the 10 safest jobs, how many do you think you can name? Whether it’s a dirty job, safe job or dangerous job, our jobs are either something we love to do or they are what we need to make a living.
Safety Risks: Quantifiable Quadrants
yes, we’re dividing your workplace into four possible safety quadrants. Hopefully your workplace actually only is in one of these, or is working toward it.
The Plan, Do, Check, Act Model
Companies aiming to achieve the Certificate of Recognition (COR) will find the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) model improves their workplace health and safety exponentially. Because the PDCA model is so beneficial for businesses, many companies are now integrating it into their business plans.
Dealing With Contractor & Employer Non-Compliance
The consequences of non-compliant contractors are significant. Learning how to deal with contractor non-compliance can prevent a disastrous safety, financial, and legal burden on the employer.
How Using Soft Skills Can Improve Workplace Safety Compliance
Organizations are making a huge shift from a compliance-driven approach to a more respectful method that uses soft skills when instructing and reprimanding employees. Managers learn these skills and practice them to form stronger connections with their teams.
Creating a Successful Ergonomics Program
A vital part of a safe workplace is developing and executing an Ergonomics Program for employees. The benefits derived from a good plan are long-lasting, cost-effective, and rewarding. Your employees may be suffering from musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).
Authentic Relationships Increase Safety and Performance
There is a significant shift in how organizations define and approach improved employee performance. Tomorrow’s work cultures will be focusing on well-being first as a catalyst to improved safety, health, and achievement.
Best Practices for Improving Performance in Workplace Health and Safety
For years the construction industry measured health and safety using lagging indicators. Construction Owners Association of America (COAA) members realized for companies to achieve the next level of health and safety performance, they must focus on leading indicators.
Supervisors and Managers Role: Impacting Contractor Actions and Safety
Monitoring contractors by supervision and management is key to keeping workers safe and preventing injuries. To better understand the difference between supervision and management, it is wise to separate the two and explain the responsibility of each role.